Dept. of Luz Pa'la Calle
Quico says: Joy was uncontained in Venezuela today as the government announced that, thanks to the millions of dollars it has invested in the electric industry, there will...
Francisco Toro
Quico Toro is the founder of Caracas Chronicles.
A Euro-Oil Peg?
Quico says: Chavez, Ahmadinejad & co. have made something of a hobby horse of it: Oil should be traded in Euros rather than sullied by association with the...
No means no
Quico says: “No es no.” Three words, six letters, short, sharp, unambiguous, devastating. The slogan is one of the most heartening developments in recent Venezuelan politics: it crystallizes...
Chávez, can you spare $20 million?
Katy says: Recently, I came upon a story about a cost-effective alternative to expensive mass-transit systems. It’s called Aerobus and it has been in use in the city...
Crazy Polar Bear Chronicles
[Note: My usual policy is to steer well clear of non-Venezuelan subjects…we’ll be stretching that rule in this post.] Quico says: There are local elections in Britain tomorrow....
Binge and purge
Quico says: It’s official: the inhabilitación binge will be matched by a PSUV purge. In a weird kind of political murder-suicide, chavismo is not just disqualifying key oppo...
The false promise of food security
Katy says: When Chávez first came to power, one of the things he asked to include in the Constitution was the concept of “food security.” The country’s ability...
Rent-seeking as a Livelihood Strategy
Quico says: Thinking about the way the New Political Class has looted the proceeds from our current oil boom, it’s hard to contain a certain moralistic rage. We...
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